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The whole stack was re-evaluated—a “one-time decision,” said a memo from the advisory council, due to “extraneous circumstances.”

It is clean, precise, and devastating—nothing extraneous, nothing false—and it comes as close as any fiction I know to perfection.

You know where you find a clear, neat story with no extraneous details?

He realized, as well, that there is a great deal of redundant information—extraneous bits—in human communication.

Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny.

It was tightly clasped, and its boards were warped by having for years been obliged to embrace a number of extraneous sheets.

There were practically no burgesses extraneous to the Merchant Gild, though there were often Gildsmen who were not burgesses.

We saw, also, how there grew up a large class extraneous to the privileged Merchant Gild.

You defeated your end if you insisted on conditions, if you allowed anything extraneous to count as much as that.

He lives on extraneous resources, the wages of labour, realised means, or the aid of his family.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extraneous, such as: additional, immaterial, incidental, nonessential, superfluous, and supplementary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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